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Essendon Canoe Club Page

Locality: Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 416 126 267

Address: Fairbairn Park, Woods Street 3032 Ascot Vale, VIC, Australia

Website: http://Essendon.paddle.org.au

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20.01.2022 This is an early 1873 view of the Maribyrnong (Saltwater) River, Footscray, looking at the premises of Samuel Henderson, the Ship Inn, the Victor Hotel, another... Hotel which i can't read the name (Bridge?) and the Ham and Bacon Cure factory. Very cool, someone might have a bit more info. Crops are off the first wide image. The reason I've selected that date is, the painting (last image) was done in 1873 according to the Vic Library See more

16.01.2022 Footscray to Moonee Ponds No.82 Tram.The Maribyrnong river line was extended to West Maribyrnong to serve the Munitions Factory in WW2.The Tram was carried across the river on a timber tressle bridge.

14.01.2022 Dudley Flats Shanty Town West Melbourne SwampFirst known as Batmans Swamp, the West Melbourne Swamp was fed by the Moonee Ponds Creek and the Yarra River flood tide. Europeans first saw the swamp when Surveyor Charles Grimes' party ascended Flemington Hill in 1803; John Batman described it as replete with wildlife in his 1835 diary. Georgiana McCrae sketched it from Flagstaff and her son George recalled it as being in 1841 'a real lake, intensely blue, nearly oval, and full o...f the clearest salt water'. An impediment to easy traffic, and deteriorating as it became a receptacle for the industrial and household waste of expanding Melbourne, by the 1860s it was a foul-smelling health hazard.The swamp is shown very clearly in John Noone's 1869 photographs of West Melbourne. Direct roads to Melbourne skirted the swamp on the north, Swamp Road connecting with Arden Street, North Melbourne, and (Old) Footscray Road clinging to the north bank of the Yarra. Ambitious plans to drain and reclaim the swamp began in 1877, with steam-powered pumps at Brown's Hill discharging water to a network of ditches that ultimately discharged to the Maribyrnong River along Swamp Road. When the other outlet through the Moonee Ponds Creek coal canal to the Yarra was closed in the late 1880s, the Maribyrnong became even fouler. Draining and filling of the swamp were completed by the Footscray-based contractor, Michael Walsh, in the early 1900s, with the resumed land progressively used as railway yards. Melbourne City Council assumed control of the swamp territory from Footscray in the 1890s, and the Swamp Road was remade as Dynon Road, connecting to Dudley Street, which gave its name to the shantytown Dudley Flats that was occupied by the unemployed in the 1930s. Until the 1950s there was still a remnant of the swamp on the north side of South Kensington station. Hal Porter describes this 'no man's land' in his autobiography The paper chase (1966).

12.01.2022 Maribyrnong river Bridge.